GCD project status?

[Niels Möller]

tg at gmplib.org (Torbjörn Granlund) writes:

> Perhaps keeping the to-be-swapped variables in two structs, and instead
> conditionally swap pointers to the structs?

Hmm. Definitely worth a try. But if we need explicit loads and stores
from the structs, we'll not save that many instructions. Each iteration
needs to load all the values but store only half of them, so for each
pair of values load + load + store, compared to mov, xor, and, xor, xor
for conditionally swapping using a mask.

> Some measurements with method 4 and 5 are now in.  Modern Intel CPUs
> like method 5, as I had expected.

Nice! With a few % margin over method 3.

Regards,
/Niels

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